Jasmine Wright, 12, penned a letter to Buckingham Palace after she and her family were told their home, which is owned by the Crown, is being put up for sale

Plea: Jasmine Wright reads out the letter she wrote to the Queen (Photo: YouTube/Getty)

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A schoolgirl has made an emotional appeal to the Queen urging her to halt eviction proceedings against hundreds of residents.

Jasmine Wright, 12, penned a letter to the Monarch after she and her family were told their home, which is owned by the Crown, is being put up for sale.

The Crown Estate, which manages land and property historically linked to the Royal Family, is selling 200 of its 750 countryside homes.

Tenants have been given six months to clear out and find somewhere else to stay.

But Jasmine and her family, who have lived in their house in rural Lincolnshire for 22 years, say they carried out thousands of pounds of work to the property over the years - and will now lose out.

In her handwritten letter to the Palace, Jasmine made the point: "As you have lived at Buckingham Palace for so long I thought you might understand how we feel."

Dad Jason, who has brought up four children with wife Jenny, said he had spent around £30,000 on fixing up the home in Swaton and said he felt the Royal landlord could afford to show more 'compassion'.

"If I were renting from a normal landlord I would appreciated he's in it for the money," he told the BBC.

"But we are talking about the Crown Estate that has always been the guardian of residential properties and always provided affordable housing."

The family have set up a petition calling on the landlord to re-consider the sale of the properties, which has already racked up hundreds of signatures.

But officials from The Crown Estate said tenants were given first refusal on purchasing the homes.

But Patrick Clark, from the group, said he appreciated that the announcement was 'difficult' for tenants.

He told the BBC: "We understand that this will be difficult news for some of our tenants, which is why we are approaching our commercial mandate in a responsible manner by offering all of those affected the chance to discuss purchasing these properties, should they wish."

Although owned by the Crown, the £8bn property portfolio, which includes the 6,400 Windsor estate, is not the private property of the Queen and its profits go to the Treasury.

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